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Commodity illustration: Aniseed

Category:Spices and aromatics

Aniseed from Persia

Standard price
250 pieces of eight for 100 kg
Surplus
100 pieces of eight
Scarcity
300 pieces of eight
Bulk
0.3 Tons

Equivalent to 833 pieces of eight per ton

Export regions

Aniseed consists of small, ridged, grey-green seeds with a sweet, penetrating scent. Fragrance matters: even sound-looking seeds lose much of their appeal when stale.

Confectioners coat them in sugar to make comfits, including the French sweets called anis à la reine. Apothecaries use them in digestive remedies. The seeds of commerce are the dried fruits of a plant with small flowers in umbrella-shaped clusters. They share a scent with star anise, but look nothing like its woody, star-shaped fruits.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 530.

Ludic RPG adaptations used on this page:

  • Goods sold by the 100 kg lot: bulk (house rule).

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.